FATSlacko is NOT an official product but a puplet. It is directly based on the upcoming Slacko-5.3.3. It is also the PAE version which will see your large RAM and as such is recommended for higher end machines.

The main sfs is xz compressed as well as having the extra compression of the '-Xbcj x86' option of mksquashfs to save another 10 to 15 MB off the iso size at a cost of decompression speed.

It is built entirely from woof, not a remaster, however you could achieve near identical results with the Slacko updated remaster tool.

Removed

Abiword
Gnumeric
libgsf
Epdfview

Many thanks to pemasu for his java pet and playdayz for the Libreoffice integration files, shinobar for many contributions, zigbert for his many contributions, jemimah for the icon theme, Barry for the Puppy/Woof concept and all testers and developers who had the remotest input to Slacko.

If you have a slightly older machine, you are better off waiting for the official Slacko-533 release which will be available in standard and PAE versions, hopefully Friday. All the packages are available for Slacko from the repo and most (soon all) are pets and sfs.

I tried to compile smplayer 0.8.0 and smtube 1.1 but they wouldn't
compile, pets of them that I made in racy 5.3 worked.

EDIT: I installed kdegames from ppm and I expected that would break
vlc, it didn't but it did break smplayer and smtube so I took another
stab at compiling the source (after removing the broken pets in ppm)
and this time it compiled okay. I made new pets and installed them,
smplayer is back in business using qt 470

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition. Updated a 4fs save file from 5.3.2.9p. Used your fine nouveau_unload and then installed the latest Nvidia driver. Next using PPM, installed Bibletime-2.9.1s (Thank you for providing Bibletime).

Everything appears to be fast and rock solid at least on my desktop computer. I have also installed some favorite Windows programs, Bible Analyzer, e-Sword, and theWord.

With this distro's implementation, once booted, there is little to no need add anything. This implementation does everything we have used or expected in a Microsoft/Apple/AIX/HPUX/top5-LInux distros.

And, all seemingly is surviving over a save-system reboot! This is especially important to those of us who use Live media RAM based system operations.

90+% of new users of this distro will have little need for additional subsystem or program installation to address 95% of most home-office needs.

Everything is included! This is all-inclusive and is the most complete 32bit distro ever assembled in Puppyland. .... ever!

THANK YOU 01MICKO for such a forward-thinking solution for those of us, here, in Puppyland who still use 32bit PCs!

P.S. Below I am showing resultant FirstRUN, JAVA (from terminal), and SAMBA operations and a Hardinfo report of system with 4 Seamonkey Windows open, each with 3-5 tabs on a LAPTOP 32bit system. This is very, very responsive!

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Working great on my laptop using Mesa video driver! Wifi connection was established using Frisbee, SNS did not work. Also, was able to connect to my wifi default printer, HP Officejet 6500, so that problem has been corrected.

These 2 JAVA apps from Puppy developers are working as expected in SLACKO. And, AngryIP is still much faster than anything else we have seen in Puppyland for device discovery on the LAN not to mention its ease of use.

These 2 apps PLUS FATSlacko complete everything I would ever need managing everything on any LAN from Puppy's desktop.

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I have not given Slacko the credit it has earned.
I tried it when it first came out and I can't say I disliked but was not crazy about it. The other day I download the 5.3.2.8 release and my whole outlook changed and when I seen the FATSlacko this morning i just had to try it.
No problem so far been up and running about 6 1/2 hours on a usb install.

This is download streaming music and checking around the net also a few games of xpat2 during this time. A message would come up telling it was saving to the savefile.

Yes, normal activity, but be aware with large activity in a usb install RAM can fill up quickly and cause a RAM crash, it's the case with any usb install.

I see you were missing deps by directly downloading Bible time, should have checked PPM . QT is already there, you just need to find sword (ibiblio) and clucene (type it in PPM search box after you click the settings button at top left, hover and you see "configure package manager". enable salix, slackware and slacky checkboxes in the config window, close PPM and restart PPM)

I know from what is being said that FatSlacko is worth its weight in OS Gold . . .
For now I am sticking with the release candidate of Slacko
as I am familiar with it and have it set up to support my needs.

I installed a Full FATSlacko, using my Frugal FATSlacko for the Universal Installer and its /home directory as the source of the FULL installation files. To a wiped partition of 2.7GB of which I now see about 730MB free (after also adding my usual pets - wine+programs is pretty big).

Everything looked OK.

My normal pets installed and ran well as far as I went (e.g. wine with a few programs, gimp, pwidgets, some games and extra file managers, even the temp-icon pet).

But nothing happens with LibreOffice. Running from a console reported:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeExce

Any ideas as to my problem?

Thanks,
David S.

(PS: just found vlc is not running in the FATFull but did in the FATFrugal.)

PPS: Just tried fresh FATFull install from my FATFrugal but with none of my extra pets installed. Just installed over the wiped earlier troubled FATFull.
With nothing added, took about 1200MB leaving 1500MB for stuff I can't run from my mounted-at-boot data partition.

LibreOffice is now GOOD (happily takes my A4 based templates as with past LibreOffices)
VLC is also running, but I can't work out how to set up our local DVB channels (I have a channels.conf file) so I can pick which channel to watch on my TV card. Seems only to want a playlist?

Anyway, it looks like one of my pets was upsetting LibreOffice & VLC, so it was not a problem in FATSlacko Full installs as such. I'll see if I can work out which pet by trial and failure.Edited_time_total

It may be a decompression issue, will check, but that partition does seem small for a full install.

This thing is pretty huge.. it would be well over 400M if I had have used normal gz compression expanding to well and truly over 1GB.. I haven't done any calculations on that. I know working with large stuff and decompressing you seem to need a bit of room to move, probably as much as the install will take and then some.